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In this case it is therefore an APU using the Jaguar processor 8-core AMD which the manufacturer does not specify the frequency of operation. Note that this is most likely a variant of the same processor that AMD intends to PC market, and some believe its frequency to 1, 6 GHz. A relatively low rate, but offset by the large number of cores to work. We do not find many details about the GPU, apart from the usual, but uninformative, calculating raw power in teraflops estimated at 1.84. This would bring the chip in the Radeon 7800 series PC with the most advanced models go up to 2.56 TFLOPS. The real surprise that we did not expect, it is obviously the 8GB of RAM that oppose the expected 4 , Sony has probably seen his position in relation to the reactions on the internet or even rumors of the presence 8GB at competition. As expected, Sony is increasingly the choice of GDDR5 memory and high frequency bandwidth. In other words: a RAM which dislocated. This should not be sufficient to run ultra-high resolution 4K games (3840 x 2160), but the machine will be able to read and go out videos in this format. Caution, however, files can weigh more than 100 GB.

Largely inspired by the PC architecture, the configuration of the machine should not only a gain in production costs, but also to reduce consumption and heating, and thus produce a quiet machine avoiding syndrome dryer hair in the salon. Note that paradoxically, the arrival of AMD "octocores" processors could be beneficial to the PC market, the operation of 8 cores on a close console of the PC architecture can push developers to optimize their games in that all markets and democratize this type of chip, which is not really the case.

Note that the games (which should also all be available in dematerialized form) can take advantage of a Blu-ray 6X.

THE COMPLETE CONFIGURATION

APU processor CPU / GPU

• CPU: AMD x86-64 "Jaguar", 8 hearts
• GPU: 1.84 TFLOPS, AMD next-generation Radeon

Memory

• 8GB GDDR5 RAM

optical drives

• Blu-ray 6X
• 8X DVD

Entries exits

• USB 3.0
• Ethernet (10BASE-T, 100BASE-TX, 1000BASE-T)
• Wi-Fi 802.11 b / g / n
• Bluetooth 2.1 (EDR)

Audio / Video Connection

• HDMI
• Analog AV output
• optical output

COMPARATIVE TABLE PS3 / PS4:

	PS3	PS4
CPU	7 cores at 3.2 GHz	8 cores at 1.6 GHz (according to rumors)
GPU	1.8 TFLOPS in a calculation that Sony is still debate today	1.84 TFLOPS
RAM	256MB GDDR3 at 700 MHz (25.6 GB / s) coupled with 256MB of RAM dedicated video	8 GB GDDR5 (176 GB / s) unified
optical drive	Blu-ray 2x	6x Blu-ray Player